0629.com.ua reported last night that Dmitry Gorbunov, press officer for the Ukrianian military operation in the Mariupol area (dubbed sector M), had announced the death of a civilian in the village of Chermalyk, north-east of the port city.
Earlier today we reported on our Ukraine Live blog that a Russian military camp near the village of Kuzminka in the Rostov region, used as a staging ground for forces entering Ukraine, was rocked this morning by a series of powerful blasts.
Dajey Petros who blogs at Ukraine@War has highlighted photos taken yesterday by Alexander Ermochenko for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) showing 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled guns on the streets of Donetsk.
Kristina Belousova, spokesperson for the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), has announced that Nadezhda Savchenko has been transferred to a civilian hospital in Moscow, confirming what her lawyer, Mark Feygin, told Interfax yesterday.
The press service of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reports that there was an explosion today on the Odessa Railroad, LiveMapua and Liga.net reported.
Oleksandr Motuzianyk, the Ukrainian Presidential Administration’s spokesman on the Ukrainian military’s Anti-Terrorism Operation, has announced that one Ukrainian soldier has been killed and 14 wounded over the last 24 hours, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
An extremely powerful explosion occurred this morning in a Russian military camp, in the Rostov region, near the village of Kuzminka, around 70 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.
Mikko Laaksonen is in Finland and has been watching today’s developments. The first thing he notes is that while the Finnish government’s reporting of this story has made no claims as to the origin of the submarine, the Russian state-controlled press has still criticized the statements:
The following is Finland’s official statement on the foreign submarine spotted off its coast: Finnish Navy detected possible underwater target in the territorial waters off Helsinki.
The Finnish military fired handheld underwater depth charges as a warning against a suspected foreign submarine in waters near the capital of Helsinki, Reuters reported.
